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Grimani shield , "palato d'argento e di rosso di otto pezzi ." Two versions from contemporary maps. In 1700, the governor...

  Late fifteenth-century Florentine painting from a series concerning  Jason and the Argonauts that makes great use of gilt and Byzanti...

Because so many people have downloaded Theo MacKay's watercolor of the dog Ayyusha , it seems appropriate to share more of Theo's w...

Nauplion Houses. Detail from Camoccio map , 1571. Towards the end of the fifteenth century, Canon Casola and Felix Fabri described Modon...

 F rom Schliemann's 1885 book, the plateau of Tiryns and the Argolic Gulf, with Nauplion's Bourtzi in the distance. Here is Brig...

15th C Venetian lion, Negroponte Last March at the Renaissance Studies Association, there was a series of panels on the Venetian stato...

I was reading my favorite writer's -- Sir Thomas Brown e's --  Musaeum Clausum (1684+) in which he creates a museum of pictures a...

The loveliest Virgin in Greece, a 13th C fresco in the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin, Merbaka/Ag. Triada   A portrait of William ...